Ubiquitous anti-Israel activist Norman Finkelstein stirred up the blogosphere last week. In a YouTube interview with pro-Palestinian advocate Frank Barat, Finkelstein said—in his aggressive, condescending way—that members of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement (BDS), which Finkelstein has prominently supported, care less for human rights than they do for Israel’s destruction. When Finkelstein saw the reactions, rumor has it he tried to get Barat to take the video down.

But Finkelstein’s angry comrades didn’t understand what he was really admitting.

Finkelstein got into trouble when he said that some people in BDS “don’t want Israel.” He lectured his BDS colleagues:

Stop trying to be so clever, because you’re only clever in your cult. The moment you step out, you have to deal with Israeli propaganda . . . They say, “No, they’re not really talking about rights; they’re talking about they want to destroy Israel.” And in fact I think they’re right, I think that’s true.

In fact, Finkelstein said, it is “not an accident, an unwitting omission, that BDS does not mention Israel”: They “know it will split the movement, because there’s a large segment—component—of the movement that wants to eliminate Israel.”

You can see why anti-Israel people were offended to hear this from Finkelstein, of all people. Yet Finkelstein was not revealing some deep secret about the motives of those BDS-ers. Anyone who has listened to their leaders, read their papers, seen them at play, or checked out their circle of acquaintances, supporters, and collaborators can hardly be surprised.

Finkelstein made his truly subversive comments elsewhere in the interview, and—perhaps not accidentally—they have provoked much less reaction from anti-Israel opinion. BDS is “a cult,” Finkelstein said:

And I personally, I’m tired of it. I went through my cult stage. I was a Maoist. . . . I’m not going to be in a cult again. I’m not going through that stage again, with the gurus in Ramallah, you know, giving out marching orders. And then if you disagree, they say, “10,556,454 Palestinian civil society organizations have endorsed this.”

The interviewer defended BDS, saying it was “attuned to the international community” rather than Palestinian groups. “That, to me, is a problem,” Finkelstein said:

If you’re an indigenous organization in Palestine, you should be organizing your people, and it’s our job, to organize from our side. I went through many solidarity movements. The Vietnamese never gave us marching orders. The Nicaraguans, the El-Salvadorians, they didn’t tell you what to do. They organized their people. And as a solidarity movement abroad, we were supposed to make the judgment about how best to organize ourselves. And it’s a very strange thing when the people there, who claim to be the leaders of civil society . . . can’t organize a demonstration of 500 people among themselves, but they’re telling everybody else abroad what to do. That’s a weird inversion.

This, in my view, is the real dynamite. Finkelstein is saying that one-man Palestinian non-governmental organizations in Ramallah are grossly misrepresenting themselves—and that they control BDS and other “international” human rights groups. If I said these things, I would be branded an Israeli propagandist. But Finkelstein knows them as an insider. These are truths slipped out to us through the holes in the internet, and they can help us understand the grossly disproportionate amount of human rights activity in Israel.

Let us begin with Finkelstein’s accusation about the self-inflated one-man NGOs. Why their proliferation? The reason is money, lots of it.

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In Australia we have a Finkelstein hearing an ‘investigation’ into the media, and their criticism of the government who has instituted this investigation. ‘The Australian’ newspaper has a stable of many and varied journalists across the board. Rarely is anything written of a personal nature, but the daily has a ‘Cut and Paste’ section where someone’s quotes of previous years are contrasted with recent quotes, highlighting how easily he/she will change positions to suit the agenda, often contradicting themselves. Our govt isn’t happy with Freedom of Speech!

He provides excellent analysis which demonstrates that the Palestinans need to rethink their actions and the implications they have. They must realize that it is horribly wrong to be so anit Israel and to learn to live in peace with them.

Churchill was the man who went against the british mandate and the League of Nations, by cutting up what was to be the Jewish homelnd. He created Jordan and I thunk, Syria
. This all for oil. The league of Nations order to give the Jews what was required was never abrogated, which means that it is still international law. TheuN divided the land still futher. Ther UN’s division is surely illegal.

Calling Arabs “Palestinians” is to fall for the lie perpetrated by Egypt under Nasser and the Soviet Union, haters of Jews, who, in Cairo in 1964, invented the “Palestine Liberation Organization” (P.L.O.), with phony history and propaganda. “Palestinian” has meant “Jew”, and “Palestine” “land of the Jews” (or “the Holy Land.” since Jesus was a Jew) since the Roman Emperor Hadrian, after defeating the last Jewish rebellion under Bar Kochba in 135 A.D., changed the name ofJudea to “Palestina,” to eradicate all memory of Judea. He also outlawed Judaism and changed the name of Jerusalem to “Aelia Capitolina,” “Aelius” being his gens name.
That is why Great Britain was awarded the “Palestine Mandate” after World War I to be the “homeland of the Jews.”

Actually Soviets had lots of perfectly legal newspapers – Izvestia (News), Komsomolskaja Prawda, Trud, Krasnaja Zvezda, Literaturnaja Gazeta, Sovetskij Sport … Add to this multitude of local newspapers and journals(both local and not) and we see different picture… I despise everything Soviets did, but still, Honest reporting should be also correct (always)

His book the “Holocaust Industry”.
In it he accuses the Jewish Elite of perpetuating an industry using the holocaust as a ploy to extort money and gain influence to crush any dissent or criticism of the state of Israel.

The New York Times review of his book- described its premise as “ A novel variation of the Elders of Zion.” They concluded by accusing Finkelstein of being Juvenile stupid and arrogant. (Their issue Aug 6th 2000)

unfortunately you are preaching to the proverbial choir. this must go out to all news media, major papers, t.v. networks and especially the white house,state department and the u.n.
i also believe that Israel should hire some good lawyers (Allan Dershowitz?) and sue these groups for libel and slander. drag them through the courts, the Hague, etc. and make them pay. when they start losing all the money they have been getting from the useful idiots of the world we will see how fast they all shut up and go away.